USPTO Patents Application 10758818

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Patent
PD-200292
Customer No. 020991

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

In re Application of: Raynold M. Kahn,

et al.

Serial No.
Filed:

10/758,818
January 16, 2004

For: DISTRIBUTION OF BROADCAST
CONTENT FOR REMOTE
DECRYPTION AND VIEWING

Group Art Unit: 2131

Examiner: SHEIKH, Ayaz R.

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Application Number

10/758,818

Filing Date

January 16, 2004

First Named Inventor

Raynold Kahn

Art Unit

2131

Examiner Name

SHEIKH, Ayaz R.

Date: March 16,2007

Sheet 1 of 1

Attorney Docket Number

PD-200292

J.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS

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No.

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MM-DD-YYYY

Name of Patentee or
Applicant of Cited Document

Pages, Columns, Lines,
Where Relevant Passages
or Relevant Figures
Appear

US-5,421,031

05-1995

De Bey

US-5,701,582

12-1997

De Bey

US-6,519,693

02-2003

De Bey

US-6,853,728

02-2005

Kahn et al.

US-6,993,499

01-2006

Gagnon et al.

US-7,191,155

03-2007

Maruyama et al.

US-5,301,245

04-1994

Endoh

US-6,105,134

08-2000

Pinder et al.

US-6,748,080

06-2004

Russ et al.

NON PATENT LITERATURE DOCUMENTS

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publisher, city and/or country where published.

T

"PKCS #1 v2.1 : RSA Cryptography Standard"; 14 June 2002; RSA
Laboratories; 61 pages

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